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How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky
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Aerial analysis reveals thousands of tennis courts converted to pickleball since 2020. The shift is driven by pickleball's popularity and profitability, despite some tennis community resistance.

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How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky
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Aerial analysis reveals thousands of tennis courts converted to pickleball since 2020. The shift is driven by pickleball's popularity and profitability, despite some tennis community resistance.
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How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky

By Ethan Singer
Sept. 1, 2025

In 2022, the Santa Monica Tennis Center in Southern California had a lone tennis court. Today, that court is gone. In its place are four pickleball courts, attached to what is now called the Santa Monica Pickleball Center.

In 2019, Cincinnati’s Sawyer Point Park had eight worn-down tennis courts. Today, the park has 24 pickleball courts, six of which are drawn atop the three tennis courts that remain.

The lost tennis courts at the Santa Monica Pickleball Center and Sawyer Point Park are hardly alone. They are among the thousands of tennis courts identified by The New York Times that have given way to — or now share space with — pickleball.

By analyzing nearly 100,000 aerial photographs, we were able to identify more than 26,000 outdoor pickleball courts made in the last seven years — a majority of them at the expense of once-exclusive tennis spaces and created since the onset of...

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